"A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world."

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"A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world."

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"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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